Poetic Parallels Assessment

Part 1: Comparing Context

It's time to evaluate your primary source poems (or song lyrics) for their use of explicit and implicit details to
communicate their perspective on the historical, political, or social context of the poem. You'll need your
poems, your secondary research sources, and your critical thinking skills to complete the chart below.

Poem 1 Poem 2

Poem Title Paul Revere's Ride The Raven

Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edgar Allen Poe

Year of Publication 1861 1845

Implicit or Explicit "A cry of defiance, and not of fear, "And my soul from out that
Details from Poem A voice in the darkness, a knock at shadow that lies floating on the
Which details reflect how the door, floor
the author feels about the And a word that shall echo Shall be lifted—
topic?
forevermore!" nevermore!"
"At the end of the poem, the poet "The poem is told from the
alludes to the historical importance point of view of the narrator."
Evidence to Support
of this moment and how, just like
Perspective from
Secondary Source Revere’s horse, the facts of this
evening will permeate history for
years to come."
"Through all our history, to the last, "Take thy beak from out my
Implicit or Explicit
In the hour of darkness and peril and heart, and take thy form from
Evidence from Poem need, off my door!”
Which details reflect how The people will waken and listen to
the author feels about the hear
topic?
The hurrying hoof-beats of that
steed,"
"The landlord, who is telling the "find their characters in dreary
story of Paul Revere, is directing it isolation, struggling with
towards his children." intense passions while
Evidence to Support surrounded by spooky,
Perspective from otherworldly influences that are
Secondary Source often connected both with the
supernatural and the
subconsciousness of the
characters."
Implicit or Explicit
Evidence from Poem
Which details reflect how
the author feels about the
topic?
Evidence to Support
Perspective from
Secondary Source

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Part 2: Who Said It Better?
Synthesize the information from the chart and compose a written response of 7-10 sentences that answers the
following question:
Which poem more effectively uses implicit and explicit details to communicate the author's perspective about
the historical, political, social, or cultural events that inspired their writing?

Your reflective response should include a topic sentence, incorporate evidence from the poem and secondary
sources, and effectively cite your sources.

Reflective Analysis

In my opinion the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" uses more details to communicate the author's perspective than
the poem "The Raven".

poem - “Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poems | Academy of American Poets.”
Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, https://poets.org/poem/paul-reveres-ride.

secondary source - Baldwin, Emma. “Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.” Poem
Analysis, 7 Dec. 2022, https://poemanalysis.com/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/paul-reveres-ride/.

poem - Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation,
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven.

secondary source - LitCharts. “The Raven Study Guide.” LitCharts, https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-raven.

Poetic Parallels Rubric

(100 points possible)

On Target Almost There Needs Improvement

Analysis 50-40 points 39-30 points 29-0 points
Chart  The analysis chart  The analysis chart  The analysis chart is
(50 points) includes three specific includes three specific mostly incomplete or
examples of explicit or examples of explicit or does not reflect an effort
implicit details from both implicit details from both to locate textual
poems that clearly poems that attempt to evidence to support the
reflect the authors' reflect the authors' authors' perspectives on
perspectives on the perspectives on the the topic.
topic. topic, or the chart is
 The analysis chart
missing some of this
includes three pieces of
evidence.
evidence for both poems
 The analysis chart
that directly support the
evidence from the poem includes three pieces of
in relation to context and evidence for both poems
the authors' that attempt to support
perspectives. the evidence from the
poem in relation to
context and the authors'

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 perspectives, or the
chart is missing some of
this evidence.

Who Said 40-32 points 31-24 points 23-0 points

It Better?  The student insightfully  The student attempted  The student may be
(40 points) and thoroughly reflected to reflect on the missing the paragraph in
on the effectiveness of effectiveness of the its entirety, or the
the poem they felt best poem they felt best paragraph may be too
communicated the communicated the short to fully develop a
historical, political, or historical, political, or cohesive idea about the
social context through social context, but the selected poem's
implicit and explicit reflection may be vague effectiveness.
details. or underdeveloped.  The student may be
 The student wrote a  The student wrote a missing substantial
paragraph of at least 7 paragraph of about 7 support from the poem,
sentences and sentences and the research source, or
incorporated ample and attempted to both.
relevant evidence from incorporate relevant  The paragraph may be
both the primary source evidence from both the lacking a topic sentence
poem and the secondary primary source poem and/or MLA citations and
research source. and the secondary signal phrases.
 The paragraph contains a research source.
clear topic sentence and  The paragraph's topic
appropriate internal MLA sentence may be
citations and signal unclear.
phrases.  The paragraph may lack
appropriate internal
MLA citations and signal
phrases.
Grammar 10-8 points 7-6 points 5-0 points
 There are virtually no  There are a few  There are several
spelling, punctuation, spelling, punctuation, spelling, punctuation,
or grammatical errors.  or grammatical errors.   or grammatical
errors.  

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